The Right Writer?
This playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This U.S. state is known as the “First State.”
What is Delaware?
It introduces a list or elaboration, and should never follow a verb or preposition.
What is a colon?
This saying refers to a particularly heavy rain.
What is, "It's raining cats and dogs"?
This device compares two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This author wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
What is relaxed?
Writers use this to show ownership or a missing letter.
What is an apostrophe?
This backstage wish for good luck sounds more like a curse than a compliment.
What is, "Break a leg"?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is an alliteration?
This author wrote The Lord of the Rings and created Middle-earth.
Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?
This substance is the primary component in gummy bears.
What is gelatin?
Em and en are two varieties of this punctuation mark.
What is a dash?
This phrase for enduring something painful comes from the days when surgeons gave patients something to clench during battlefield amputations.
What is, "Bite the bullet"?
Giving human qualities to a non-human thing is called this.
What is personification?
This author wrote Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This person was South Africa's first post apartheid president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This mark represents a superscript in typed text.
What is a caret?
This phrase for revealing a secret allegedly comes from ancient Greek voting, where beans were used as ballots
What is, "Spill the beans"?
"Deafening silence" and "living death" are examples of this contradictory device."
What is an oxymoron?
This author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
This past-tense verb describes time that has gone by, sharing its root with the Latin labi, meaning to slip.
What is elapsed?
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut famously said the only purpose of this mark is to show you've been to college.
What is a semicolon?
This French phrase, 'Le diable bat sa femme et marie sa fille,' translates to what unsettling description of a sunny rainstorm?
What is, "The Devil is beating his wife and marrying his daughter"?
When Juliet cries "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo," she's using this device. A direct address to an absent or imaginary person.
What is apostrophe?